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School Girl: Harakiri

1990 · 45 min

A slow, ritualistic and deeply uncomfortable descent into fixation, offering little beyond its graphic, fetishistic shock.

Overview
A school girl kneels on her mat looking over an old photo album containing pictures of people committing seppuku. Becoming aroused by what she sees, she touches herself and licks her fingertips. She pulls out a knife of her own, takes off her uniform, and in a very fetishistic manner proceeds to slit open her stomach and then pull out her guts.

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How it feels

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Tone
    Pacing
    slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • death
    • obsession
    • isolation
    • madness
    • violence
    Places
    • home
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • single location
    Content intensity
    • Gore strong
    • Language none
    • Violence strong
    • Sex strong
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action1
    Horror8
    Humour0
    Realism5
    Romance0
    Tension6
    Darkness9
    Complexity3
    Emotional weight6

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    Details

    Genres
    horror
    Directed by
    Akio Fuji
    Written by
    Yuuri Sunohara
    Starring
    Hiromi Saotome
    Runtime
    45 min
    Country
    Japan

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